New 250GB disk too small for Virgin restore ?

[tivo dave]

Current 120GB drive started to play up, so I went out & purchased a new 250GB Samsung drive. But when I try to use mfsrestore to copy virgin image to new drive, it states the 250GB is too small for restore :confused:

Just to verify if its the disk, ran same restore on original 120GB drive & it worked OK.

Next I thought if I copy direct from 120GB drive with fresh image to 250GB drive, using dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdd bs=1024k where hdc is 120GB & hdd the 250GB.

This ends with "dd writing /dev/hdd - no space left on device" message, 32254+0 records in , 32253+0 records out.

Am I missing something here ??

BTW my LINUX knowledge is limited before asking if I have checked x y & z ;)

[TCM2007]

What size is the disk being reported as when you start up Linux?

[mikerr]

Check the jumper settings, as samsungs do have a "limit capacity to 32GB" config.
I've done that by accident once :o ;)

[blindlemon]

This ends with "dd writing /dev/hdd - no space left on device" message, 32254+0 records in , 32253+0 records out.I would concur with Mike that it sounds like you have jumpered the drive to limit capacity to 32gb.

[tivo dave]

Check the jumper settings, as samsungs do have a "limit capacity to 32GB" config.
I've done that by accident once :o ;)

AHA ...your right ....doh. With the descriptions at bottom of the table for jumpers you assume thats the correct config, only to find it's for 32GB limit :o

Starting off a fresh copy now ....Tx for that :up: